After recurring during Season 4 of ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder, Amirah Vann has been upped to series-regular status for the ABC drama’s upcoming Season 5.
The veteran of WGN America’s Underground made her HTGAWM debut in Season 4’s third episode as Tegan Price, a lawyer working with Caplan & Gold who, in the season finale, was revealed to be an FBI whistleblower. The actress also recurred on USA’s Unsolved: The Murder of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. and, in its final season, Major Crimes.
Vann’s promotion marks the series’ second big one ahead of Season 5: The Haves and the Have Nots‘ Rome Flynn, who made his first HTGAWM appearance as Gabriel Maddox this past season, has also been made a regular.
